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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the police release Behrani with no charges against him?
(a) They believed him without corroboration.
(b) Kathy corroborated his story.
(c) Witnesses corroborated his story.
(d) Lester has corroborated his story.

2. Why hasn't Lester told Esmail the gun was empty?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Fear.
(c) Spite.
(d) Anger.

3. How does Kathy help Nadereh when she first realizes she is in pain?
(a) She calls the doctor and picks up her prescription.
(b) She drives her to the emergency room.
(c) She opens her medicine bottle and closes the shade.
(d) She fixes her a meal and puts on her music.

4. What does Lester try to convince Kathy to do now that they have held the Behrani family overnight?
(a) Demand that the county pay full market value for the house.
(b) Kidnap his children and run away with him.
(c) Turn herself in to the police.
(d) Take the money from the county and leave with him.

5. What does Behrani feel for Kathy when he finds her sleeping in the car?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Satisfaction.
(c) Pity.
(d) Fury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nadereh suffering from that causes Kathy to help her?

2. When Kathy goes into the bathroom, what does she decide to do?

3. What worries Behrani most about Lester's behavior as he breaks into their house?

4. How does Lester feel about his wife?

5. How does Alvarez punish Lester's threatening the Behranis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Kathy's judgment so confused as she drives to the house and parks in the driveway?

2. As Kathy takes the pills to kill herself, how does her attitude toward the Behranis change?

3. Kathy says that she only has one hope now while she's waiting for Lester to return. What does she hope?

4. When Lester describes his feelings during the drive to the county office, he says it is probably the way felons want to feel all the time. How does he say he feels?

5. Although Lester believes Behrani's story, he becomes angry again when Behrani describes Kathy as "drunk." Behrani is angry at Lester when he sees him studying his photo with the shah. How are these two moments similar?

6. Why does Lester feel that his gun has become a "burdensome overreaction in the house?"

7. Behrani says that he sometimes believes he is being punished. What does he think he is being punished for, and how is this similar to Kathy's feelings?

8. Why does Lester conclude that the Behranis have told him the truth about Kathy's situation?

9. Why does young Deputy Gleason's expression of gratitude when he encounters Lester on the street make Lester feel worse?

10. When Nadereh told Lester that her husband was "only good," Behrani believed that she had a different meaning than a positive comment on his character. What does Behrani believe Nadereh meant?

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